"Eagle Rock: Where land use and planning is a contact sport"

 

 

THE EAGLE ROCK ASSOCIATION

 

TERA

 

-- e.letter --

 

September 27, 2001

 

 

Please encourage interested friends to send their e.mail addresses to us at artburn@earthlink.net so we can keep them informed, too.

 

 

In this issue:

 

1.  TERA PUBLIC MEETING ON EDUCATION -- TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2 -- SPEAKERS LILIAM LEIS-CASTILLO AND DAVID TOKOFSKY

 

2.  TERA'S COMMITTEES WANT YOU!

 

3.  FUN AND UNITY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

 

4.  LET'S RETURN THE SHOPPING BAG BUILDING TO ITS ORIGINAL USE!

 

5.  CHICANO FILMMAKER JESUS SALVADOR TREVINO AT OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE -- OCTOBER 9

 

6.  EAGLE ROCK'S 90TH ANNIVERSARY -- MARK YOUR CALENDARS -- OCTOBER 27

 

7.  WTC/PENTAGON DISASTER -- ANOTHER VIEWPOINT

 

8.  COMMENT ON MIAMI HERALD EDITORIAL

 

9.  MOHANDAS K. GANDHI'S THOUGHTS ON NONVIOLENCE

 

10.  EAGLE ROCK HISTORICAL BANNERS

 

11.  DAVID HOCKNEY AT MOCA -- THROUGH OCTOBER 21

 

12.  TOROS POTTERY -- A GREAT NEW BUSINESS ON EAGLE ROCK BOULEVARD

 

13.  BELOVED LOST DOG

 

14.  LETTERS AND E.MAILS

 

15.  QUOTE OF THE WEEK

 

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1.  TERA PUBLIC MEETING ON EDUCATION -- TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2 -- SPEAKERS LILIAM LEIS-CASTILLO AND DAVID TOKOFSKY

 

Don't miss TERA's next member meeting (public invited), at which we will feature LAUSD Area Superintendent Liliam Leis-Castillo and LAUSD Board member David Tokofsky.  Find out how "breaking up" the gigantic LAUSD into separate areas has helped, or hindered, our goal of improving our huge school district.  Please join us this coming Tuesday, October 2, at 7:00 p.m., at the Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center, 2225 Colorado Boulevard, Eagle Rock.  Everyone is welcome.

 

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2.  TERA'S COMMITTEES WANT YOU!

 

TERA is a volunteer organization and needs your active participation in the improvement of Eagle Rock. Your efforts mean a lot, whether you donate a couple days a year, or work every week. Meet your neighbors. Make your mark on the community!

 

You can help in the following areas:

 

Historic Preservation

Our historic buildings contribute greatly to the character of our town. Learn more about them and work to ensure that they will remain standing for the next generation.  Call Michael Southard at (323) 255-2123, or e.mail at lavalodge@earthlink.net.

 

Home Tour Committee

Showcase our beautiful town to the world! Our tour, held yearly in May, promotes beautification, historic preservation and neighborhood pride. If you love architecture and Eagle Rock, join in. You can help with any phase of planning, or work the day of and attend our famous reception after.  Call Tracy King at (626) 844-2256 or e.mail at tracyking5@cs.com.

 

Land Use and Planning

The purpose of this committee is to protect the entire Eagle Rock area from incompatible land uses and encroachment upon its basic residential character and its best qualities as a place to live.  Call Michael Tharp at (323) 257-0058 or e.mail at mbtharp@prodigy.net.

 

Outreach

TERA's efforts are creating a large, positive change in our community by helping to expand our membership and encourage participation in all our activities. Meet your neighbors by being a part of the Welcome to Eagle Rock committee that greets newcomers.  Call Suzanne Prieur at (323) 257-7042 or e.mail at enchanted_wds@hotmail.com.

 

Public Meetings

Six times a year we host meetings in the Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center, presenting  interesting speakers imparting beneficial information for our community. There are volunteer opportunities here in all phases of event production, from planning to promotion.  Call Bob Gotham at (323) 255-7110 or e.mail at robert.gotham@uboc.com.

 

Administrative Committee

Don't have much time, but want to help? You can participate in this valuable activity by doing mailings, membership renewals and relaying communication to other committee heads just a few hours a month. This behind the scenes production is the very backbone of TERA and contributes greatly to our success and expansion.  Call Suzanne Prieur at (323) 257-7042 or e.mail at enchanted_wds@hotmail.com.

 

TERA also supports The Collaborative Eagle Rock Beautiful, a cooperative effort of local civic groups dedicated to improving our quality of life through community gardens, planting in public areas and graffiti removal.  If you would like to join in this effort, please contact John Stillion at (323) 254-6540 or Esther Monk at (323) 255-4052 or e.mail at beautification@esthermonk.com.

 

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3.  FUN AND UNITY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

 

Council member Nick Pacheco invites you to a gathering of neighbors in the southeast area of Eagle Rock on Saturday, September 29, 2001, from 12 noon to 4:00 p.m. at the 1400 block of Hepner Avenue, between Avoca Street and Loleta Avenue.  There will be information tables, kids' activities, and it's free!  Bring the whole family.  Come and learn how you can help improve the neighborhood, and meet your neighbors from around Rockdale Elementary School.  No alcoholic beverages.

 

Co-sponsored by volunteers from the Southeast Eagle Rock Association and other volunteers from your neighborhood.  For more information, please call your neighbors David Santana at (323) 258-8191; Christine Gonzales at (323) 257-4196; James Ortiz at (323) 376-6554; or Francisco Heredia of Council member Nick Pacheco's office at (323) 526-3059.

 

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4.  LET'S RETURN THE SHOPPING BAG BUILDING TO ITS ORIGINAL USE!

 

We have spoken with numerous people who would love to the see the Shopping Bag building (currently One Day Paint & Body) restored and returned to its original use as a market -- namely, a high-quality organic foods store.  There has been tremendous support for a Whole Foods Market, or something similar.  TERA e.letter reader Jeff Maddock found that there are two ways to request a Whole Foods store to be located in a given city:

 

1.  Call Pat Gilhooly at 310-451-8171

 

and/or

 

2.  Go to http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com  and click onto the "contact us" section; find the "suggest a store" link and send off your suggestion.

 

Jeff has already sent one requesting they consider Eagle Rock.  He bets residents of West Pasadena (San Rafael Hills/Linda Vista) would also frequent a store location in Eagle Rock, just like they do our Trader Joe's, and we agree.  Contact Whole Foods via the above means, and let them know you want them here in Eagle Rock!

 

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5.  CHICANO FILMMAKER JESUS SALVADOR TREVINO AT OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE -- OCTOBER 9

 

Hispanic civil rights activist Jesus Salvador Trevino will read and sign copies of his memoir, "Eyewitness: A Filmmaker's Memoir of the Chicano Movement," at 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 9 in Morrison Lounge on the Occidental Campus.  The lounge is located inside Johnson Student Center.  Information: (323) 259-2751 or contact Andy Faught at afaught@oxy.edu or (323) 259-2534.

 

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6.  EAGLE ROCK'S 90TH ANNIVERSARY -- MARK YOUR CALENDARS -- OCTOBER 27

 

Join the celebration on Saturday, October 27, at one of Eagle Rock's architectural treasures, the Women's 20th Century Club, at the corner of Colorado Boulevard and Hermosa Avenue.  A gala celebration will be held in this 1914 craftsman masterpiece.  The evening begins with a jazz combo and a cocktail reception at 6:30 p.m.  Following dinner, big band dancing will be featured.  Proceeds of the event will be used toward the restoration of this extraordinary historic structure.  Tickets for open seating are $50 each.  For reserved tables of six or eight people, tickets are $60 each and wine is included with dinner.  For further information regarding tickets, please call (323) 257-2652 or e.mail jcatdamon@aol.com.

 

The celebration continues Sunday, October 28,  with a Family Festival from 11:30 to 5:00.  The festival, which will feature arts and crafts, food, rides for children, and entertainment, will be held at Merton and Caspar Streets (the location of the weekly Farmers Market).  Bring the whole family and join with the community and celebrate the history of our vibrant town!

 

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7.  WTC/PENTAGON DISASTER -- ANOTHER VIEWPOINT

 

This letter and ensuing article were submitted by TERA e.letter reader Anne Richardson-Daniel:

 

The following was sent to me by Tamim Ansary. Tamim is an Afghani-American writer.  He is also one of the most brilliant people I know in this life.  When he writes, I read.  When he talks, I listen.  Here is his take on Afghanistan and the whole mess we are in.

 

-- Gary T.

 

Dear Gary and whoever else is on this email thread:

 

I've been hearing a lot of talk about "bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age." Ronn Owens, on KGO Talk Radio today, allowed that this would mean killing innocent people, people who had nothing to do with this atrocity, but "we're at war, we have to accept collateral damage. What else can we do?"  Minutes later I heard some TV pundit discussing whether we "have the belly to do what must be done."

 

And I thought about the issues being raised especially hard because I am from Afghanistan, and even though I've lived here for 35 years I've never lost track of what's going on there. So I want to tell anyone who will listen how it all looks from where I'm standing. I speak as one who hates the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. There is no doubt in my mind that these people were responsible for the atrocity in New York. I agree that something must be done about those monsters.

 

But the Taliban and Ben Laden are not Afghanistan.  They're not even the government of Afghanistan.  The Taliban are a cult of ignorant psychotics who took over Afghanistan in 1997. Bin Laden is a political criminal with a plan.  When you think Taliban, think Nazis. When you think Bin Laden, think Hitler. And when you think "the people of Afghanistan" think "the Jews in the concentration camps."   It's not only that the Afghan people had nothing to do with this atrocity.

 

They were the first victims of the perpetrators. They would exult if someone would come in there, take out the Taliban and clear out the rats nest of international thugs holed up in their country.

 

Some say, why don't the Afghans rise up and overthrow the Taliban? The answer is, they're starved, exhausted, hurt, incapacitated, suffering.

 

A few years ago, the United Nations estimated that there are 500,000 disabled orphans in Afghanistan--a country with no economy, no food.

 

There are millions of widows.  And the Taliban has been burying these widows alive in mass graves.  The soil is littered with land mines, the farms were all destroyed by the Soviets.  These are a few of the reasons why the Afghan people have not overthrown the Taliban.

 

We come now to the question of bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age. Trouble is, that's been done. The Soviets took care of it already. Make the Afghans suffer? They're already suffering. Level their houses? Done. Turn their schools into piles of rubble? Done.  Eradicate their hospitals? Done.  Destroy their infrastructure? Cut them off from medicine and health care?  Too late. Someone already did all that.

 

New bombs would only stir the rubble of earlier bombs.  Would they at least get the Taliban? Not likely. In today's Afghanistan, only the Taliban eat, only they have the means to move around.  They'd slip away and hide. Maybe the bombs would get some of those disabled orphans, they don't move too fast, they don't even have wheelchairs. But flying over Kabul and dropping bombs wouldn't really be a strike against the criminals who did this horrific thing. Actually it would only be making common cause with the Taliban--by raping once again the people they've been raping all this time

 

So what else is there? What can be done, then? Let me now speak with true fear and trembling. The only way to get Bin Laden is to go in there with ground troops. When people speak of "having the belly to do what needs to be done" they're thinking in terms of having the belly to kill as many as needed.  Having the belly to overcome any moral qualms about killing innocent people. Let's pull our heads out of the sand. What's actually on the table is Americans dying. And not just because some Americans would die fighting their way through Afghanistan to Bin Laden's hideout.

 

It's much bigger than that folks. Because to get any troops to Afghanistan, we'd have to go through Pakistan. Would they let us? Not likely. The conquest of Pakistan would have to be first.  Will other Muslim nations just stand by? You see where I'm going. We're flirting with a world war between Islam and the West.

 

And guess what: that's Bin Laden's program. That's exactly what he wants.

 

That's why he did this.  Read his speeches and statements. It's all right there. He really believes Islam would beat the west. It might seem ridiculous, but he figures if he can polarize the world into Islam and the West, he's got a billion soldiers.  If the west wreaks a holocaust in those lands, that's a billion people with nothing left to lose, that's even better from Bin Laden's point of view.  He's probably wrong, in the end the west would win, whatever that would mean, but the war would last for years and millions would die, not just theirs but ours.  Who has the belly for that?  Bin Laden does.  Anyone else?

 

-- Tamim Ansary

 

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8.  COMMENT ON MIAMI HERALD EDITORIAL

 

This comment in from Bungalow Heaven resident and friend Jim Galloway:

 

Dear Friends: I am forwarding an editorial comment by Leonard Pitts in the Miami Herald. Hopefully it will come through.

 

The only thing I take issue with is that yes they are '..monsters,..beasts,..unspeakable bastards,' however, it seems to me they are far from cowards. To sacrifice ones life for a belief, however wrong they my be, is not an act of cowardice. The British probably looked on the patriots during the Revolutionary War, who hid behind hedgerows and attacked from that cover, as cowards. Most battles to that point were waged with something like the Marquis of Queensbury rules. Lines of solders lined up firing at each other until one side no longer could or would fight.

 

I am, most assuredly in no way suggesting moral equivalency of those who carried out this act of evil, with the aforementioned patriots.  Cowardice was demonstrated in the Oklahoma City bombing. Whatever. Pitts expressed my feeling far more eloquently than I possibly could. I am very often, still on the verge of tears out of rage as well as sadness not to mention a state of shock.

 

Thank you for letting me offer my thoughts about this tragic/evil act. I feel certain you all share to some degree my depth of outrage. I believe life will not continue as it has for us for a very long time, if ever in our lifetimes (certainly not for an old duffer like me). Medicare, Social Security, the 'Surplus,' don't seem quite so important as last week.

 

If you are able, please fly the Stars and Stripes. One of the coolest remarks I have heard was that so far there has been no run on the banks, only a run on flags.  Yours most sincerely --

 

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9.  MOHANDAS K. GANDHI'S THOUGHTS ON NONVIOLENCE

 

1) Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than and superior to brute force.

 

2) In the last resort it does not avail to those who do not possess a living faith in the God of Love.

 

3) Nonviolence affords the fullest protection to one's self-respect and sense of honor, but not always to possession of land or movable property, though its habitual practice does prove a better bulwark than the possession of armed men to defend them. Nonviolence, in the very nature of things, is of no assistance in the defense of ill-gotten gains and immoral acts.

 

4) Individuals or nations who would practice nonviolence must be prepared to sacrifice (nations to the last man) their all except honor. It is, therefore, inconsistent with the possession of other people's countries, i.e., modern imperialism, which is frankly based on force for its defense.

 

5) Nonviolence is a power which can be wielded equally by all-children, young men and women or grown-up people, provided they have a living faith in the God of Love and have therefore equal love for all mankind. When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

 

6) It is a profound error to suppose that whilst the law is good enough for individuals it is not for masses of mankind.

 

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10.  EAGLE ROCK HISTORICAL BANNERS

 

This in from Linda Allen, chair, Eagle Rock Community Preservation and Revitalization (ERCPR) coalition:

 

The Eagle Rock Community Preservation and Revitalization Corporation would like to thank Council member Nick Pacheco for the sponsorship of the newly installed historical street banners along Colorado Boulevard.  The ERCPR had initially begun the project through a Neighborhood Matching Fund Grant to promote the identity of the community and beautify the boulevard.

 

In order to get the banners up as soon as possible for the Eagle Rock 90th Anniversary Celebration on October 27, Council member Pacheco collaborated with the ERCPR and offered to pay for all of them.  The Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society's curator, Eric Warren, found this wonderful vintage graphic, and the Historical Society supplied it for use in the project.

 

Thanks to Candace Allen-Metzger for her graphics ability, Ann Richardson-Daniel for also helping to expedite the process, Linda Herbert, Field Deputy, and most of all, Council member Pacheco for helping us get them up on the boulevard!  And we still have our original NMF grant for another project!

 

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11.  DAVID HOCKNEY AT MOCA -- THROUGH OCTOBER 21

 

David Hockney Retrospective: Photoworks is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) at California Plaza, downtown Los Angeles, now through October 21.  More well-known for his colorfully intriguing paintings, Hockney has produced since the 1960s a very impressive array of photo-collage works.  This exhibit displays primarily these photoworks, as well as some drawings and paintings.  The exhibition's flier states:

 

Drawn from sources as diverse as Chinese landscape painting, Cubism, and Futurism, the artist's influences contribute to an examination of pictorial perception, reality, and spatial relationships.  These classical themes, together with his manipulation of them through modern technology, lend virtuosity to his picture-making.

 

It is an inspiring exhibit and well worth a look.

 

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12.  TOROS POTTERY -- A GREAT NEW BUSINESS ON EAGLE ROCK BOULEVARD

 

You are welcome to Toros Pottery's showroom, where you can find pottery that ranges from simple designs to museum-quality work!  Please visit Toros Pottery at 4962 Eagle Rock Boulevard, open 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, (323) 344-8330.  Owner and potter Toros Tngrian is one of the nicest guys we've ever met, and he does produce beautiful work.  Please stop by, say hello, and support another new Eagle Rock business!

 

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13.  BELOVED LOST DOG

 

My wife and I have just moved into the area and one of our dogs got out yesterday morning (9/19/01).  Her name is Hilde and she is a small German Shepherd weighing 35 lbs.  Her coat is mostly gray, with long hair.  She has a black snout and a bushy, turned-up tail.

 

She's spayed, very friendly (she loves to jump up and give kisses), and is wearing a black nylon collar.  She was last seen on Ave 42 near Banbury Place.  I'm willing to compensate anyone who may have taken her in.  My phone number is (323) 255-2669, and my work number is (714) 995-8111 ext. 212.

 

Please, if anyone has seen her or heard about her, then I'm anxious to hear from you.  I'm a blubbering idiot without her, it turns out.

 

-- Gene E. Jaramillo

 

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14.  LETTERS AND E.MAILS

 

"Dear LA Times Magazine Editors:

 

As an Eagle Rocker of long standing, I am thrilled that Dave Gardetta put our community in the public eye and highlighted recent achievements of prominent activists and entrepreneurs [LA Times Magazine, 7/29/01].  But I must disagree with his assessment that we are indebted to nouveau Silver Lake immigrants for our 'progress' and that our local business district is full of Mayberry 'Goobers.'

 

Sure, there are those who cling stubbornly to the past and see any change as 'threatening.'  And a few may feel that remaking our business district into a franchise haven is a great idea.  But most of us passionately embrace and cherish this utterly odd and eclectic neighborhood as 'LA's home town.'  We're feisty, independent and don't tell US what to do, dammit! Case in point: since Dave's withering assessment of the Bricks restaurant appeared, Lupe's business has flourished.

 

Change is inevitable.  But there is no way that this town's character can ever be eradicated -- it so far has endured a century-long evolution from farmland to incorporated city, to a neglected part of LA that is finally waking up from its long slumber.  Yes, we've got artists and movie people moving here because of relatively cheaper real estate (for now).  But we are confident that it will never be like anywhere else.

 

While we've gotten a few new places to buy good coffee, it's still more blue collar, biker and 'Twin Peaks' than trendy here.  I'd love to see a more balanced business mix, but Westside we ain't!  This is still a human-scale community: you have to get out of your car, leave your cocoon and actually talk to people here.  How many Angelenos personally know their neighbors or the manager at their local grocery stores?  How many communities connect via a weekly e-newsletter or operate its own cultural center?  Include one of the nation's best private colleges, Occidental, as a neighbor?  Have an eclectic home tour?  Home-grown activists planting and improving public spaces?

 

Here are a few examples of Eagle Rock character that I have enjoyed: the multi-generational sing-alongs at Colombo's, where politicos, construction workers, ex-bikers and gays rub elbows peacefully; the Catch-All V, where you can peruse a tiny shop overstuffed with trash and treasures on Fridays; the community-bonding events like the Eagle Rock Music Festival, Concerts in the Park and the Eclectic Eagle Rock Home Tour; live rockabilly and punk at the All-Star Lanes; Cafe Beaujolais and the Boulangerie, run and staffed by authentic French folk; and Casa Bianca, which baffles me for its four-decade rep as one of LA's great pizza joints.  We're also blessed with the innovative, socially conscious Occidental College and two [or more] great elementary schools that defy the bad reputation of the LAUSD.

 

The business district is one part of who we are, but is hardly our whole character.  As a lifelong resident, Dave needs to get out more!"

 

-- Mary Tokita, Chair of Community Gardens for The Collaborative Eagle Rock Beautiful, Eclectic Eagle Rock Home Tour Committee member, and new TERA Board member [Mary's letter was not printed in the Times]

 

 

"Letters, Los Angeles Times Magazine --

 

I read your July 29 lead article on Eagle Rock with interest.  I'm a relatively new resident of Eagle Rock.  I met, and subsequently married, a woman who has lived and taught in Eagle Rock for more than a dozen years.

 

As we looked for a home for our family, I found the idea of a geographically self-contained community immensely appealing.  Here, we can walk or drive down the street and see people we know in the neighborhood, or whom we meet at the grocery store.  Here, we can be in a community of people who, for the most part, have made a monetary investment in their own homes, and are owners, not renters.  [We actually have a lot of renters.]  Here is a community in which multiple generations of a family can live with joy.  Here is a place in which many ethnicities can get along, held together by the sense of community which is created, in part, by Eagle Rock's geography.

 

While Eagle Rock may have a superfluity of car repair businesses and beauty and nail salons, most of them are owned by people who live in this community, and who wanted to see if they could find their part of the American dream without having to go a long way from home.  Good marketing, it may not be; but all of this has allowed a sense of community and 'place' to generate and flourish.

 

So I approach the influx of the 'hip' and 'trendy' with mixed feelings.  As a property owner, I welcome demand that will increase the market value of my home.  But I'm old enough to remember some other L.A. area communities which once were considered to be 'hip,' but are no longer as the mantle of 'trendy' has moved elsewhere.  I can recall when places like McArthur Park, Hollywood and West Hollywood, West Adams, and Studio City were considered 'hip' places to live.  Look at them now: what's left when those who need to define themselves by other's definition of 'trendy' move on?  What does 'hip-ness' do to a community which somehow managed to muddle along on its own before the self-defined 'beautiful people' came and left?

 

Trendiness is a two-edged sword.  I don't blame some of the residents and merchants of Eagle Rock for not being overly thrilled at the influx from Los Feliz."

 

-- Thomas H. Griffith, relatively new Eagle Rock resident [Tom's letter also was not printed in the Times]

 

 

"I have been very interested in the new things coming to Eagle Rock, and have awaited each new grand opening with baited breath!

 

Since I moved to Eagle Rock from Burbank in '92 I had envisioned coffee houses and book stores and the like. I could never understand why, with Oxy right here, nobody had done these things!

 

You have really done such great work, and deserve applause, along with the brave people who have opened all the new wonderful businesses. I went to Swork on the day it opened, and you could see that people were really hungry for something to do around here, and no, getting coffee at 7/11 is not, as some have suggested, quite the same!!

 

I work in Eagle Rock and hear ALL kinds of opinions expressed all day, some of them downright frightening, and I realize it IS an uphill battle, but the tide had already turned, and the future for Eagle Rock looks very bright, thanks to you, TERA, Aude and Kim, Patricia Neal and her team, Oxy Cafe (the HUGEST and most AMAZING sandwiches in town!!) and many others.

 

It should also be noted that the movers and shakers in town have shown a great deal of CLASS and civility, unlike those who would have Eagle Rock become the hubcap and dented-canned-goods capital of the world!

 

When is Eric Fred, or is it Fred Eric [the latter] going to get to work on that theatre?? [Soon, we'll let you know.]"

 

-- Sean Harrington, Eagle Rock resident and TERA e.letter fan

 

 

"Hello from folks east of Eagle Rock, namely Bungalow Heaven in Pasadena. Your e.letter is great . . . quite informative.  I'm wondering how you find time to put together so much important info so consistently!  Keep up the good work . . . I find it inspiring!"

 

-- Terry Hartley, fellow activist, Bungalow Heaven Neighborhood Association

 

 

"Good luck -- I read the e.letters with great interest."

 

-- John McVey, Eagle Rock and e.letter fan, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, resident

 

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15.  QUOTE OF THE WEEK

 

"Holy Moses, let us live in peace.  Let us strive to find a way to make our hatred cease."

 

-- Bernie Taupin (as performed by Elton John)

 

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Please encourage interested friends to send their e.mail addresses to us at artburn@earthlink.net so we can keep them informed, too.

 

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Joanne Turner <artburn@earthlink.net>

President, The Eagle Rock Association (TERA)